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The support network includes NGOs and Mexican consulates.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is Part II of a two-part series analyzing the La Reconquista<\/em> movement. It calls for the cultural, demographic, or political \u201creclamation\u201d of the U.S. Southwest, which Mexico lost after the Mexican-American War.<\/p>\n

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Part I discussed the movement\u2019s origins and history, ideological core, and its organization in the U.S. This part covers the movement and Mexican consulates in the U.S., Reconquista<\/em> goals and tactics employed, the movement\u2019s ties to the U.S. political left and Democrat Party, foreign support and NGO networks, and a discussion of possible future scenarios and their potential for success.<\/p>\n

Here we go . . .<\/p>\n

The Mexican Government and Its Consular Network<\/strong><\/p>\n

This dimension of the Reconquista<\/em> movement has received the most recent and most serious documented attention, largely through investigative journalist Peter Schweizer\u2019s 2026 book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon<\/em>, which debuted at number 1 on the New York Times<\/em> bestseller list.<\/p>\n

With more than 50 consulates in the U.S. today, Schweizer writes that the Mexican government \u201cis blatantly interfering in our domestic politics, working with American political advisors to turn legal and illegal migrants inside the U.S. into a political force to wield for their benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mexican government sends about a million textbooks to American schools every year to teach its version of U.S. history, among other subjects\u2014an effort Schweizer argues is not meant to help assimilate Mexican migrants to American life.<\/p>\n

On protest mobilization, Schweizer documents a sustained pattern: Mexico, working with its domestic allies, has staged successful mass protests. During the spring of 2007, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets across America in multiple marches, carrying Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, or Dominican flags. An astonishing 3.5 million to five million people participated in the marches in 20 cities over a couple of months. It worked: the bill raising illegal immigration to a felony died in the Senate.<\/p>\n

The pattern has continued into the Trump era. A Mexican consular official was documented in 2025 going on video chats with other officials, bragging that he was going around the country \u201corganizing the militancy\u201d\u2014his phrase\u2014to resist Trump\u2019s deportation policies. Schweizer has called for reducing the number of Mexican consulates in the U.S. by 90 percent.<\/p>\n

The Mexican government launched TV Migrante, a channel dedicated to giving voice to migrants, in March 2025, available across Mexico and in the U.S. on digital platforms and some cable packages.<\/p>\n

The strategy uses Latin American immigration, organized and influenced by state-based Mexican consulates, to encourage political activity and support the election of individuals sympathetic to the cause.<\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s government has denied these characterizations. The Mexican Embassy published a statement insisting all its activities were conducted with \u201cstrict political neutrality\u201d and that its sprawling network of over 50 consulates was necessary to help Americans. President Claudia Sheinbaum stated: \u201cI categorically deny any involvement or attempt by Mexico to interfere in the internal affairs of the United States.\u201d Schweizer has already been asked to testify at a Senate hearing on several of his book\u2019s most significant revelations.<\/p>\n

Why does Mexico have so many consulates?<\/strong> Mexico\u2019s network of 50+ U.S. consulates is the largest of any foreign nation in the United States by a wide margin. The official explanation is the size of the Mexican-origin diaspora\u2014over 37 million people of Mexican descent live in the U.S.\u2014generating genuine demand for consular services: passports, legal assistance, community programs, protection of detained nationals. The contested question is whether those functions are cover for, or have expanded beyond, conventional diplomacy into domestic political mobilization.<\/p>\n

STATED GOALS AND TACTICS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The stated goals<\/strong> of the Reconquista<\/em> movement\u2014to the extent it can be said to have unified goals\u2014range by faction:<\/p>\n